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While there are four panes in the Quad view, they all show the same scene. When assigning
views within a Quad view, you can choose between displaying Front, Left, Top, Bottom, and
Perspective orthographic views, or you can choose the view through any camera or spotlight
that’s present in the scene.
To assign different views to panes of a Quad view, do one of the following:
 Right-click directly on the POV label at the bottom left of the pane you want to reassign,
and choose another camera, light, or Point of View from the contextual menu.
Quad View Layouts
There are a variety of Quad view layouts, ranging from four equally sized panels to having three
small panels across the bottom of a larger single panel.
To switch to a different Quad view layout, do the following:
1 Enable the Quad view.
2 Right-click anywhere within the viewer and choose an option from the Views > Quad
Layouts submenu of the contextual menu.
Using Quad Views for 2D Scenes
Quad views aren’t only useful for 3D scenes. They can also be used with 2D scenes, with each
pane showing a different image channel or subview type. For example, one pane can show the
image while the other panes show the alpha channel, a vectorscope, and a histogram.
To assign different channels or subviews to panes of a Quad view for a 2D scene:
1 Right-click in a Viewer and choose Views > Quad View.
2 Click once in the pane you want to reassign.
3 Do one of the following:
a. Choose a channel from the Channel Viewer menu.
b. Right-click in the Viewer and choose Views, and then choose a Subview from
the submenu.
Guides
Guides are onscreen overlays used to help you compose elements within a boundary or along
the center vertical and horizontal axes. While guides are displayed in the viewer, they’re not
rendered into the scene. There are four commonly used guides that can be displayed, including
Monitor Safety, Safe Title, Center, and Film.
Methods of using guides:
 To display guides in a viewer: Right-click in the viewer and then choose Guides >
Show Guides from the contextual menu, or press Command-G.
 To change the aspect ratio of the displayed guides: Right-click in the viewer and
then choose an option from the Guides > Frame Aspect submenu. The frame aspect
is usually set to Default, which forces the frame aspect to the same resolution as the
image that’s displayed in the view. However, when the frame aspect is set to a specific
value, the guides will conform to the exact boundaries of the specified format and any
image area outside of that will be dark gray.
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